Bay Area: Alice's Restaurant (Woodside, CA)

[the Ferret]

See Id be worried listening to something in my helmet that I'd miss a strange noise my engine was making right before it cause catastrophic damage.

Preface:  I'm not trying to convince anyone to have or not have audio in their helmet.

In all the time and over all the miles you've ridden, how many times have noticed a strange sound your engine was making and were able to stop your bike before it caused catastrophic damage?  And, of those times (if any), how many of those strange noises were soft enough that you wouldn't have heard it with audio in your helmet?

60 years riding on the street, 36 motorcycles (incl 1 rental), 7 different manufacturers, an estimated 875,000 miles, 48 states, 2 provinces of Canada, 5 countries in Europe and I've never had a catastrophic motorcycle engine failure but all I can tell you is, in my head, the worry is real